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By Noel Streatfeild. 1959
By Aldous Huxley. 1923
By L. M Montgomery. 1931
Over the years, members of the Dark and Penhallow families have married and feuded. When Aunt Becky, the eccentric matriarch…
of the Dark and Penhallow families, bequeaths an heirloom, a brown jug, many secrets are revealed. For junior and senior high readers. 1989, c1931.In "Rabbit, run", Harry Angstorm, nicknamed Rabbit, is 26 years old and demonstrating kitchen gadgets. Real life turns out to…
be intolerable and Rabbit runs. The Rabbit, of "Rabbit redux" rarely thinks of his bid for freedom and now it is his wife, Janice, who bolts. In "Rabbit is rich", our hero is tasting the delights of the 1980s' abundant materialism. 1990.By George Orwell. 1949
By Rudy Henry Wiebe, Robert Kroetsch. 1973
In 1876, Big Bear, a Plains Cree, refused to let the government push his people off their land and onto…
a reserve. While courageous, his stand brought starvation to his followers and tore apart the Cree community and eventually his own family. A fictional account of Big Bear's struggle and the culture and history of the Cree Indians. Winner of the 1973 Governor General's Award.By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1922
A story of the reckless life of the twenties in which Anthony Patch, grandson and heir apparent to millions, falls…
in love with and marries a glamour girl from Kansas City. Because of their extravagant style of living, their marriage fails, and Grandfather Patch decides against the intended inheritance. 1922.By Jack London, Stephen Feinstein. 1999
By Richard Adams. 1972
Only a few rabbits escape with their lives when men destroy their warren. Many dangers have to be faced as…
they search for a safe place to establish a new one. Followed by "Tales from Watership Down". Grade 5-8. 1972.By Walter Scott, Elizabeth V DiSomma, Mary Louise McTiernan. 1987
England during the time of Richard I is the background for this novel of chivalry. Among the characters are Robin…
Hood, King Richard, and Rebecca and Rowena, two beautiful women who love Ivanhoe. First published in 1819. (Simple English classics series)By Hugh MacLennan. 1945
The division between French and English Canadians is dramatically shown in this novel about two families -- one, French landowners…
in a small Quebec village; the other, English businessmen from Montreal. Winner of the 1945 Governor General's Award for Fiction.By L. M Montgomery. 1989
Anne is now 25 and about to be married to Gilbert Blythe, who is setting up in practice 60 miles…
away at Four Winds Harbour. He has found the house of her dreams, and the young couple are to meet and love a whole new set of characters. Grades 5-8. 1989. (Anne of Green Gables ; 5)By A. A Milne. 1992
By L. M Montgomery. 1977
When Anne Shirley 'erupts' into their lives, the Cuthberts little guess how fond they will become of the skinny, red-haired…
orphan. Both entertained and exasperated by her constant chatter and imaginings, they soon find it hard to remember what Green Gables was like without its irrepressible adopted daughter. Followed by "Anne of Avonlea". Grades 5-8. 1977, c1908. (Anne of Green Gables ; 1)By D. H Lawrence. 1973
An earthy love story, once banned in the United States, of the affair between Lady Chatterley and her gamekeeper, Mellors.…
Married to an impotent, disabled husband, she is attracted to Mellors’s strength and independence from industrial society. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1973.By Ernest Hemingway. 1952
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a catch. He then fights a losing battle…
with sharks that deprive him of his triumph. Recorded in textbook format. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1952.By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1953
The glitter and recklessness of the Jazz Age is the backdrop for this novel about Jay Gatsby's desperate attempt to…
recapture the past and, along with it, the love of Daisy Buchanan. Grade I braille.By D. H Lawrence. 1921
Set in Midlands mining country against a background of class consciousness, the development of the love affairs of two sisters…
is examined through their relationship with each other and through the feelings between the men with whom they are in love. 1921.By Marcel Proust. 1918
Recollections of a youth in French society at the turn of the century. As the young narrator succumbs to the…
charms of the enchanting Gilberte, we are presented with an unparalleled account of the pangs of adolescent life. Following an illness, Marcel is sent to recuperate at the seaside resort of Balbec, together with his grandmother. Sequel to "Swann's way" (DC31597) followed by "Guermantes way" (DC31599). Some strong language. 1918. (In search of lost time ; 2)By Mary Hayley Bell. 1997
A classic novel about a group of siblings who find a man in a barn who they believe is Jesus,…
and they keep the secret to themselves until the adults find out and suspect the man is a recently escaped convict. Grades 3-6. 1997, c1961.